Spreading the Word.
As you can see the PhilTRON event is here.
(philtron means "love" in ancient greek, just happens to be my name and a seriously cool 1980's sci-fi film).
(do you're homework if you haven't seen it).
We didn't unveil it until we felt it was polished to our liking, in our true GC styles.
A VERY impressive line up of people.
Now the only thing that we can't put on the poster is YOU.
It will be an incredible event.
Now go forth and spread the word!
www.myspace.com/philtroneventPhil Tron if you're a facebooker.
One Eyed Pool. Playing for Keeps.
Last week I met up with my cousin Stuart who is from Sydney but at the moment lives in Brixton, London.
He is a charming, witty and intelligent. (this sounds like a cheesy singles web site).
I promise you’re on the right website!
Needless to say I am very close to him, always have been. He is the youngest of 4 grown up children.
I have very fond memories of spending time with my mother’s sister’s family. Backyard pool cricket etc.
Stuart worked on the Sydney Olympic Committee, (s.o.c.o.g.), and as a result met others that are in all sorts of places doing jobs all over the globe. Stuart oozes charisma and knows people everywhere anyway.
The last place was exceptional…
It was a bright pink Spanish style mansion on Hamilton Island in the Whitsunday Islands on the Great Barrier Reef.
The house was built by an entrepreneur in the 1980’s who owned the main resort on the island at the time, decadence is a word that springs to mind when I think of describing it.
The island was eventually sold and the house with it.
A guy that my cousin knew and worked with at S.O.C.O.G. now runs the island and lives in the house as part of his job.
Unfortunately he had to go to L.A. for work, so he wasn’t there.
This house looks like it should be in a porno film or on Mtv cribs.
It has 6 bedrooms I think, a spa, pool, sauna with a two way mirror, heli pad and a helicopter, (just in case), 2 Rolls Royce’s, an indoor shooting range, (also just in case), a tennis court, a chapel, amazing grounds complete with a surreal view.
O P U L E N C E.
They use the chapel, helicopter and the rollers in wedding parties.
Steph and Brooke are girls that my cousin knows that both work on Hamilton and spent their spare time with us and showing us around.
On our first night there we went out for dinner, then we went to the yacht club and played pool where I was dealt a sound thrashing.
One eyed pool. I don’t think you have really lived until you have tried it.
We went on a jet ski tour of the island which was fun.
Stuart is like me, loves anything with an engine and being the curious men we are we like to see what happens when you go full speed.
We came off at top speed in the middle of the ocean. We were going so fast that we couldn’t penetrate the water, so there I was skimming the surface of the pacific ocean, trying not to laugh, then after checking on each other I looked up and saw the jet ski was 45 meters away.
So I started to swim.
At least my version of swimming which must have looked like I was panicking as the other jet skier’s offered advice and the tour guide plucked me from the water.
We came off at least 3 times.
When I used to ride motocross one of my friends used to say “if you’re not coming off you’re not learning”.
We circumnavigated the island which was REALLY rough, but I’m sure would be pleasant under calmer conditions.
I had a pair of board shorts on which ended up like a pair of Speedo’s because of the wind pushing them up my bum.
So the normally pasty milk white top of my legs got exposed to the sun and got fried, which made for a few uncomfortable days.
On the whole it was amazing.
Not Neglected.
I don’t mean to neglect this I have been busy. Some more good story’s from my perspective pending!
!ATTENTION!
Keep the evening of Thursday, April the 9th free, more information available soon.
Watch this space!
Changing of the Guard.
On the weekend I went and watched surfers compete in the first competition of the year, (on the world circuit), at a right hand point break called Snapper Rocks in Cooloongatta just near where I live.
A good friend of mine runs the A.S.P. (association of surfing professionals). He hooked me up with a few V.I.P. passes where I sat in some of best seats you can get and watched in total appreciation.
It was good for many reasons.
Just one of them was seeing a young Australian, Julian Wilson, beat the multiple world champion, Kelly Slater.
For those that don’t know, Kelly is a savage competitor and a very good surfer and Julian is relatively new in comparison.
To beat Kelly is an incredible feat.
Maybe this is the beginning of change?
The atmosphere was intense.
It was seriously hot, I looked at the surfing going down and at the spectators.
It was like I what I would imagine Ipanema Beach to look like.
I did my favorite thing and just watched the world go by.
Fundraiser.
Keep the evening of Thursday, April the 9th free, more information available soon.
Watch this space!
Chewie.
I have been meaning to update this but life happened.
I have been doing an interview for the local newspaper about this illness.
Thank goodness I don’t write for a living, I got sent 21 question’s 3 weeks ago and I am only halfway through it! I need to be brutal with my writing.
I keep reading what I have done and re- writing it.
I’m a bit of a pessimist when it comes to the media because I am such a private person. But one of my favorite things to do is to read the newspaper on Sunday.
I guess it’s also because whenever I see or hear the news it’s never good. Sometimes it can be easier to not expose yourself to what’s happening.
But it is a very good vehicle to reach people en masse.
That is what the article will do.
Create awareness about this affliction.
So people will know more about my illness and not think it’s a look I’m going for.
I went to see a 5 piece band from Scotland called Mogwai in a beautiful venue the other night.
One word.
Amazing.
They were very tight and their dynamics were intense. Every bone in my body shook.
I should be a writer.
Oh the comedy never stops.
I had my I.V.I.G. treatment today and I have it tomorrow too.
I don’t mean to seem blas`e about it.
It is saving my life.
I have been catching up with an old friend this week too. That has been fun.
I had a shave last weekend, (useless information), the beard was getting out of control and I had a haircut too.
I don’t look like Chewbacca anymore.
My son has B.M.X. racing this evening which I will go to.
Busy boy.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
